Megállapítások az energiaföldrajz fejlődéséről

Abstract

Though the geography of energy has been part of regional geography for more than half a century now, it has also long been considered as a subject area within economic geography, and is thus deeply rooted in human geography. Being part of regional sciences, however, means it is an integrating subject and its own values and achievements should not be neglected. Due to the growing importance of energy resources and their environmental impact within many scientific fields, some geographers have begun to identify geography of energy as an individual subject specialisation based on its own merits. This simply means that energy geography forms a strong bond between the two major branches of geography: the physical and the human. From this perspective, geography of energy is a bridge connecting the fields of geographical disciplines, and with such a high importance, it needs to be defined, and its roots and historical importance must be brought forward. The main aim of this paper, therefore, is to consolidate a large amount of information on the historical development of geography of energy, mostly at the international, but also at the Hungarian, level.